Folmer Wisti (8 May 190816 October 2000) was a Danish director, associate professor and philologist. He was the first Slavic philologist from

Aarhus University Aarhus University ( da, Aarhus Universitet, abbreviated AU) is a public research university with its main campus located in Aarhus, Denmark. It is the second largest and second oldest university in Denmark. The university is part of the Coimbra Gr ...

. Wisti was the instigator and leader of the Danish Cultural Institute (originally Danish Society) from 1940 to 1983. In 1974, he founded the Foundation for International Understanding, today known as the Folmer Wisti Foundation for International Understanding. From 1976, he was also the organizer of conferences Europe of the regions as well as the information sheet, Regional Contact.

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*Grænseløs kulturudveksling -Det Danske Kulturinstitut i 70 år, af dr.phil. Niels Finn Christiansen (suppleret af billedfortællinger ved cand.mag. Kenn Schoop), 2009. *Portræt: Thomas kluge, 1998, Det Nationalhistoriske Museum Frederiksborg

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1908 births 2000 deaths Danish male writers Aarhus University alumni 20th-century Danish philosophers {{Denmark-writer-stub